Telepresence

More and more businesses are going the route of remote working and having telepresence. Think of combining robots with a screen and a VoIP service. It's all made possible by the Beam — a mobile video-conferencing machine that people can drive around the offices and workshops. The 5-foot-tall device, topped with a large video screen, gives them a physical presence that makes them and thier colleagues feel like they are actually there. This gives you that casual interaction that you're used to at work. You could be sitting at your desk area with everybody else. You are part of their conversations and their socializing. More and more employees are working remotely, thanks to computers, smartphones, email, instant messaging and video-conferencing. But those technologies are no substitute for actually being in the office, where casual face-to-face conversations allow for easy collaboration and camaraderie. What do you think about being in the office in the form of a robot?